Xterm

My xterm suddenly went white b-g with black text f-g. Not that I use xterm by choice, but sometimes it pops up (actually it would pop up when using Ranger in LXterminal and initiating a bash process -it doesn't any more since switching to rxvt-unicode).

Set the X colours

You will need to make or edit the file ~/.Xresources, and add this content

! X colors ------------------------------------------------------------

! tangoesque scheme
*background: #111111
*foreground: #babdb6
! Black (not tango) + DarkGrey
*color0:  #000000
*color8:  #555753
! DarkRed + Red
*color1:  #ff6565
*color9:  #ff8d8d
! DarkGreen + Green
*color2:  #93d44f
*color10: #c8e7a8
! DarkYellow + Yellow
*color3:  #eab93d
*color11: #ffc123
! DarkBlue + Blue
*color4:  #204a87
*color12: #3465a4
! DarkMagenta + Magenta
*color5:  #ce5c00
*color13: #f57900
!DarkCyan + Cyan (both not tango)
*color6:  #89b6e2
*color14: #46a4ff
! LightGrey + White
*color7:  #cccccc
*color15: #ffffff

! xterm --------------------------------------------------------------------

xterm*VT100.geometry:     80x25
xterm*faceName:           Terminus:style=Regular:size=10
!xterm*font:              -*-dina-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*dynamicColors:      true
xterm*utf8:               2
xterm*eightBitInput:      true
xterm*saveLines:          1012
xterm*scrollKey:          true
xterm*scrollTtyOutput:    false
xterm*scrollBar:          true
xterm*rightScrollBar:     true
xterm*jumpScroll:         true
xterm*multiScroll:        true
xterm*toolBar:            false

! xpdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------

xpdf*enableFreetype:    yes
xpdf*antialias:         yes
xpdf*foreground:        black
xpdf*background:        white
xpdf*urlCommand:        chromium %s

When you've made any changes you want to make, run this command and then re-start Xterm: and that command can go in the LXDE or OB autostart

Tips: The xterm scroll bar is a little different to usual - left click on it to go down and right click on it to go up.

Xpdf

Here's a nice pdf viewer. If you set the X colors as above, or with what changes you like, Xpdf follows suite (which is a good thing on my dark themed desktop).

Tips:click and drag to select a region, then right-click and zoom to selection.

Some keys from the man page:

n	Move to the next page. Scrolls to the top of the page, unless scroll lock is turned on.
p	Move to the previous page. Scrolls to the top of the page, unless scroll lock is turned on.
<Space> or <PageDown> or <Next>	Scroll down on the current page; if already at bottom, move to next page.
<Backspace> or <Delete> or <PageUp> or <Previous>	Scroll up on the current page; if already at top, move to previous page.
g	Activate the page number text field ("goto page").
0	Set the zoom factor to 125% (ready for increment and decrement).
+	Zoom in (increment the zoom factor by 1).
-	Zoom out (decrement the zoom factor by 1).
z	Set the zoom factor to 'page' (fit page to window).
w	Set the zoom factor to 'width' (fit page width to window).
h	Set the zoom factor to 'height' (fit page height to window).

Printing

The default print command is lpr

It needs to have your printer name to print to, e.g lpr -P HP_P1102

Also you could use lp -d HP_P1102

Note that these are simply bash commands, `lp' (linux print) and `lpr' (linux print request).
The `-P' or `-d' sets the destination printer.. I couldn't find anything about print quality or greyscale! - `man lp' and `man lpr' for man pages.

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